20 + 1 Best Books I’ve Read in 2021
This is the last time I’m ever doing New Year’s resolutions. My resolution for 2021 was to read less – not because I hate reading but to have more diverse …
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Want to save the planet, go nuclear
Amidst general gloom and doom, a small ray of light, showing that sometimes scare campaigns and endless demonisation does not work. This from polling published today by Essential about Australian …
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Heroes of Zero
Absolutism is stalking the land. Extreme policies are being proposed and justified as the only possible response considering the supposedly extreme nature of the circumstances they relate to. To paraphrase Barry Goldwater, …
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Unholy wood: how to deal with catastrophic wildfires
First Australia, in the first months of the year, now the western parts of the United States. Australian wildfires ravaged the forested area equal in size to the state of …
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Good News From 2020
Twenty-twenty. What a year. As someone has recently remarked on Twitter, I can’t believe we stayed until midnight and cheered for it when it arrived. In the past, 2020 has had …
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Good News from the Atmosphere
It is somewhat ironic – though in some ways unsurprising – that at the time when the climate change activism (or, rather, according to the new guidelines, climate crisis or …
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Charity served cold
Note: While this story is about Australia, the same issues apply to charitable sectors in all Western countries. An important thing to remember about large parts of the government bureaucracy and …
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Media more destructive than fires
Where the bloody hell are you? Not in Australia apparently. While no official figures are available yet, anecdotal evidence from international tour operators suggests significant cancellations (according to one report, …
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Congratulations, Victoria!
Victoria is officially the safest state in Australia if you’re looking to escape the firebugs: Victoria Police say the fires engulfing the eastern part of Victoria are not being treated as …
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Is Australia still there?
Myself, as well as other people with families and friends overseas, are getting concerned and panicky messages to check if we’re safe in light of the catastrophic megafires that have …
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Walkleys for nothing and the chicks for free
The piece I have put together the other day about the 200 or so people who have been arrested – and most charged – with setting a significant amount of …
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Australia’s arson crisis (updated)
According to my calculations and estimates, the number of individuals around Australia whose arson has contributed to the current bushfire crisis has now passed 200. This figure is not presented …
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A very good question indeed
The former Labor Environment Minister, and a wistful reminder of the time when Labor had serious politicians, Graham Richardson, asks a very good question: Just how did Australia fall from a …
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Welcome back, Prime Minister
Scott Morrison has cut short his Hawaiian holiday to inhale some Sydney air, which is pretty much the only thing the PM will be able to do back home over …
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Hurry up and die, you Tory scum
The old communists, if they didn’t like you, would simply kill you. The new woke left merely wishes you would die to make a way for a better, more caring …
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When Greta goes to Guangzhou, part 2
The shot (no pun intended): The chaser: Yeah, no, probably not these world leaders. P.S. This has been the shortest Daily Chrenk post ever, but pictures do tell a thousand …
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Feeling like we are doing something
An interesting exchange between a Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon (the working class) and a writer and journalist Jane Caro (the wokeing class) about the forest fires and climate change: Put …
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China DGAF, the left oblivious
The wages of identity politics – “white man bad” and all that – is the obsessive focus on own society’s failings, the real, the exaggerated, the imaginary, while everyone else …
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From Effect to Extinction: The great Climate Rhetoric Crisis
How old are you? I’m greenhouse old: I remember when it was all called the “greenhouse effect”, seemingly a lifetime ago. The first book I’ve read on the topic, still …
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Extinction Rebels with all the wrong causes
No one has been gluing themselves to the streets the last few days, but it doesn’t mean that the X-men and women haven’t been in the news lately. Take Roger: …
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